heavensouls

There’s a tendency to focus on a prodigy’s age and what they could do in the future.

But that obscures what heavensouls has already done as a teenager. He became a RateYourMusic darling as one part of epic collage rap pranksters The Sidepeices. But his newest solo album westside trapped on its own is a remarkably self-assured, virtuosic effort, sparkling with the type of righteous anger that can lead to joy. heavensouls layers a multitude of afrobeat experiments over each other, creating these monstrous, lumbering beasts of rhythm that interlock at strange angles. Every track on the album feels like it’s on the verge of total collapse but will suddenly find a moment to mesh into something stunning. We talked to him below.